SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp is making available public domain books from Google Inc to users of its electronic book reader, Sony said on Wednesday, vastly increasing the amount of available... | Reuters – 2009-03-19

The Readers Digest Association has entered an agreement to outsource its entire IT operation to an India-based company. The seven-year, $350 million deal with HCL Technologies, expected to be... | Folio Mag – 2009-03-16

Amazon.com Inc. has received a lot of attention and respectable sales for its Kindle e-book reader, but it's hardly made a dent in the hardcover armor of the old-fashioned paper book.
| AP via Yahoo! News – 2009-03-04

Amazon.com Inc. is releasing a slimmer version of its Kindle electronic reading device, but it still costs $359 Â¿ making it unclear how mainstream even an improved Kindle can be during a brutal... | Editor And Publisher – 2009-02-10

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. , the worlds largest Internet retailer, introduced a new version of the Kindle, the electronic book reader thats sold out two years in a row.
| Bloomberg – 2009-02-09

Readers Digest Association Wednesday said it will eliminate 8 percent of its overall workforce of 3,500, or approximately 280 employees.The cut employees will be notified Thursday.
| Folio Mag – 2009-01-28

The renowned Chinese contemporary author Sun Shuyang, who has so far composed more than a dozen influential contemporary works, has published a new book named "Tibet Reader", after his magnum opus... | People's Daily – 2008-12-31

The Kindle may be good, if aging, and Sony's Reader may be groovy yet expensive, but Foxit's upcoming eSlick has a killer advantage over both: its price. Sneaking in at a launch price of $229 makes... | Fast Company Magazine – 2008-12-19

Random House is making a variety of eBooks available for free to iPhone and iPod Touch users via Lexcycle Stanza. This promotion will allow over 500,000 Stanza users to enjoy free eBooks from a... | PRWeb – 2008-12-08

The Google Reader Blog announced that they now are offering translation of your subscriptions. Google Reader now gives you the ability to subscribe to blogs and sites that do not publish content in... | Search Engine Land – 2008-11-11

Sony Corp. unveiled a new e-book reader Thursday with a built-in light and a touch-sensitive display, features that set it apart from Amazon.com Inc.'s competing Kindle reader.
| International Herald Tribune – 2008-10-03

Outside the British Library the slim volume in my hands could mark the beginning of the end for slim volumes. It is the Sony Reader, the electronic book that hits the British market this week  and... | Times Online – 2008-09-02

It seems The New York Times can't even conduct a reader survey without it becoming a major Web discussion topic. Both Vanity Fair and The New Republic found a Times online reader survey valuable... | Editor And Publisher – 2008-08-07

The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony is trying a new tack:... | Mail and Guardian – 2008-07-29

AP - With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.
| AP – 2008-07-24

Finally, a competitive move from Sony (NYSE: SNE) worth writing about, though it has its own caveats: it is opening up Sony Reader, its e-book reading device which is a competitor to Amazon (NSDQ:... | CBS News – 2008-07-24

Reader's Digest UK struggled with a 13.1 fall in sales, a good score for FourFourTwo, and Moshi Monsters neared the top 50Sales of Top Gear magazine dropped by almost 6% year-on-year in the second... | Guardian – 2012-02-17

Newspapers have until 4 May to submit an entry to the World Young Reader Prizes, the annual awards from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that recognize success in... | Editors Weblog – 2012-03-26

Newspapers have until 4 May to submit an entry to the World Young Reader Prizes, the annual awards from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that recognize success in... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-03-26

Barnes & Noble wants you to take your e-reader to bed.
The latest iteration of the Nook, revealed by the book retailer Thursday, is a black-and-white device with a softly glowing backlit... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-04-13

Although Microsoft invested $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off on Monday, this isn't the first time Microsoft played the e-book game. Typical for the company, it often has great ideas,... | GigaOM – 2012-04-30

Microsoft on Monday announced a $300 million investment in Barnes and Noble’se-reader and tablet business, giving the software giant a late entry into the race for digital publishing and online... | The Washington Post – 2012-05-01

A memo from group publisher Alison Draper and CFO Tammy Bailey to Creative Loafing employees confirms the sale:
We would like to inform you of the sale of the Chicago Reader to Wrapports, LLC owner... | Poynter. – 2012-05-24

Readers who insist on visiting the beach this summer — there is really nothing to see except sand and water, but I digress — need to make some fundamental decisions not just about what they want... | The Washington Post – 2012-06-06

News updates all day from Fast Company.Readability, the web and mobile app that lets users organize and read stripped-down versions of web stories, today announced in a blog post that it will end its... | Fast Company – 2012-06-14

Flipboard, the social newsreader with a stylish magazine-like design, has emerged from beta and is now available free for all Android devices, including the Kindle Fire (although it’s optimized for... | Betanews – 2012-06-22

Today in books and publishing: Your e-book is watching you; a book written with disappearing ink; Jezebel's new book club; library jail; Colin Powell reads on planes. If books could talk: Your... | The Atlantic Wire – 2012-06-29

Scholastic has owned Weekly Reader, a magazine aimed at children and what can only be described as a grammar school must-read, for about six months and today they've announced that... | The Atlantic Wire – 2012-07-23

In the market for a new e-reader? One could certainly do worse than Sony's Reader line. The company's been packing features onto its devices, and the already leaked latest entry is no different, with... | Engadget – 2012-08-16

Barnes & Noble has finally scheduled the long-awaited international debut of its Nook e-reader. The company said Monday that it will begin selling its Nook Simple Touch and Nook Simple Touch... | AllThingsD – 2012-08-20

Reader's Digest is making an unusual move for the magazine industry today: Next year it will increase its annual frequency from 10 to 12 issues.
The move undoes a frequency reduction that took effect... | Crains New York – 2012-09-15

At the Frankfurt Book Fair on Tuesday, Berlin-based Txtr announced a tiny e-reader that will cost under €10 when subsidized by mobile carriers. With the Beagle, the company aims to convert the 80... | GigaOM – 2012-10-10

Apple's new iPad Mini is the best small tablet on the market and makes an amazing e-reader; the only problems are its not-so-hi-res screen and it's not-quite-low-enough price tag. | Publishers Weekly – 2012-11-07

This week in Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski we look at the perfect storm of litigation on the horizon for Google, why the BlackBerry might be saved by a boom for the handsets in Africa, will the... | Guardian – 2012-11-20

Berlin-based ebook company Txtr expects its no-frills e-reader, the Beagle, to retail at €9.90 or less, subsidized by mobile carriers. The five-inch Beagle runs on 2 AA batteries and has no WiFi.... | GigaOM – 2013-01-04

Nearly 65 percent of U.S. magazines now have a digital replica edition, but those editions make up just under three percent of overall circulation. For some individual titles, though, digital growth... | GigaOM – 2013-02-07

Montreal-Based Title Encourages Home Cooks to Share Favourite Recipes
with Fellow Canadians
MONTREAL, Feb. 14, 2013 /CNW/ - As part of its commitment to an expanded
presence in the Canadian m... | CNW – 2013-02-15

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owner of magazine Reader's Digest, once the staple of doctors' offices and coffee tables, has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in less than four years, citing a... | Reuters – 2013-02-19

RDA Holding Co., publisher of the 91-year-old Reader's Digest magazine, has filed for bankruptcy to cut $465 million in debt and focus on North American operations as consumers shift from print to... | Baltimore Sun – 2013-02-19

The day long feared by fans of Google Reader has come: the service will shut down, the company said.
"We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and... | Editor & Publisher – 2013-03-14

Pope Who? White smoke over the Vatican doesn't stand a chance as a trending topic next to the black cloud over one of Google's most beloved products. Google Reader has landed on the company's sunset... | Engadget – 2013-03-15

Sony is ending a price promotion that it had been running in its U.K. store since last July. The promotion sold select ebooks for just 20 pence, and Amazon matched the discounts on Kindle books in... | GigaOM – 2013-03-18

Not bad for 36 hours' work. It appears Google Reader's loss has been Feedly's gain. Feedly published the news in a blog post at the beginning of the weekend, writing that half a million users had... | Fast Company – 2013-03-18

RDA Holding Co., the publisher of Reader's Digest magazine, filed a bankruptcy reorganization plan to shed 80% of its debt by converting $231 million of notes into new equity.The plan, filed late... | Crains New York – 2013-03-22

The furor over Google Reader's eminent demise, while quieter, is by no means over. Today, Digg pours gasoline on the fire, by publishing results from a survey about subscription habits. Late last... | Betanews – 2013-04-12

I use Adobe Reader sparingly on any platform. Alternatives abound and mostly those are faster and more secure. Still, the company persists and owns market share for PDF, among other things. That is... | Betanews – 2013-06-04

We've considered types of book readers before, from the hate-reader to the multi-tasking bibliophile, but it's time to analyze another sort. Some people are plagued with guilt... | The Atlantic Wire – 2013-06-05

After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country.
On Friday, both the Kindle... | PC World – 2013-06-07